Chalon R.A. O.W.S., John James (1778 – 1854) – An Arcadian Landscape – probably a Sketching Society work.

Chalon was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design, later known as the Chalon Sketching Society, and at one point ... the Bread and Cheese Society! These were all later iterations of the sketching society established in 1799 by Girtin and continued after his death by Cotman. Together they form an important strand in the history of British landscape composition. According to C. R. Leslie, 'The members assemble, at six o'clock, at each other's houses in rotation. All the materials for drawing are prepared by the host of the evening, who is, for that night, President. He gives a subject, from which each makes a design. The sketching concludes at ten o'clock, then there is supper, and after that the drawings are reviewed, and remain the property of him at whose house they are made'.